Malcolm X at 100
Chicago in the night
Charlotte in the sun
Gatsby's green light

Get my son from school
Time to eat and talk
NBA tonight
Run and jump and walk

Boredinary Maryland
Graduation soon
At our table Thai dumplings
In the kitchen Flaming June

                         Open!

Bill Moyers: So which is it, Mr. Rodriguez - more Mexican or more American?

Richard Rodriguez: Actually, I'm Chinese.

I have the urge to write the poems
Play a bit with words
I said I miss you in the night
But I don't think she heard
Albert Camus at JMU
19 and Absurd
Divinity School in Chicago
Yo soy un theonerd.

Memories of Thailand
Motorcycle taxis in the rain
I've been to Pattaya
Never been to Spain

The Buddha sits in silence
Suffering is caused by desire
At my grandparents' house
I stare into the fire

              Holy Toledo!

The ordinary
    dailiness
        sleep

...........Wendy.......
      Purple Rain
              80s!

Said Fr. David Tracy
May his memory be a blessing.

Patience in the desert
Only a little water
I have 3 sons
She has 2 daughters

Ordinary daily life
Boring most of the time
Grateful for the phone calls
Cranberry juice with lime

                         I'm ...

In one of his earlier incarnations
Pythagoras was a bird.
And in another he was a fish.

He said.

In Florida, the Land of Flowers
The girls do love the beach
I've been there after hours
Before being taught to teach
Dr. Thomas he once told me
In '88 (or maybe '87)
Saint Augusteen is in Florida
But Saint Augustine - he's in heaven!

Dr. Thomas, my teacher
      Southern charm
               Mozart!

Another day
Quietness
Exoplanets
Italian food

Another day
Gentle sleep
Keep them safe
Interlude

      Water!

Crossing the Baltic
   Young sons sung
         Trappist 1!

In gratitude for my dad
         One more day
                Xie Xie

55 and falling
Soon 56
Come Sail Away
Listening to Styx

Please keep him close
Destiny not Fate
El futuro, El futuro
8088

          Dragon Gate!

Another anxiety dream
I can't teach my class
Meditation hall
Lovely wood and glass

Please, Life, protect my son
Grant him stable peace
A friend in South Korea
A table at the feast

                   Slowly

lifelong low level depression
                    sleep
                     sigh

Our immortality is for others
Not our clinging selves
When we die we become mothers
May we give birth to speaking shelves
Of books we've never written
Tales we never told
Young again in the young
As our former selves grow old
Presently I am a father
And I love my three young sons
But I muse on my maternity
And greet thee - my darling ones!

O Brother, Where Art Thou?
             Charlottesville
                       Rieko

no one important
evening alone
misty Seattle
Rolling Stone

           Amen.

Live my dailiness
Somethin' in the Night
Adam Raised a Cain
Gatsby's green light

Camus at JMU
19 and Absurd
Like every seeking poet
Looking for the word

             Astrobiology!

Gratitude on the go down
Courage in the night
Viva Tel Aviv!
Sor Juana's mystic flight

Exoplanet sky
Mother Mary might
Seattle ferry boat
Just a little light

                           Ole!

I'm not a saint
I sometimes wish I was, but I'm not
3 hopes for Ry
3 hopes for Scott

Very far from home
Temples at Angkor Wat
Bangkok in the rain
Thanks a lot.

Memories. Memories.
Night in old Taipei
Fo Guang Shan
Silent is the Way
Won ton soup
Gracias xie xie
Taxi slowly home
Yea, verily. Yea.

BBQ today
And a little sweet tea
In Seattle misty rain
In Dublin meant to be

My son wears a Batman shirt
One Dark Knight
A little true protection
A little mystic flight

                    Alright!

Memories in my mind
Seattle, Vienna, Tel Aviv
Satellite Beach, Florida
Hutch, Mike, and Steve

             Lost. Retrieve.

Dailiness. Not The Answer.
Slowly day by day
Memories of Seattle.
Silence. No words to pray.

In my solitude
Gracias xie xie
The injection hurt this time
No words to say.

I am a taxi service
Ok by me
Keep him moving ahead
Forward. Xie xie ni.

                       We.

3 and a half years of Spanish
What do I remember?
Senyor Fernando Suarez
La Florida. My youth.

                La Mancha. Truth.

Seattle when I was young
Colors grey and green
Later I was a teacher
Reading Things Not Seen

Seattle is the water
Singing at night at Kells
Exoplanets for her daughters
We are the Witherells

                         Ole!

Reno. Big sky. Black smoke.

                     Up!

Struggle through the day
Grey sky in my soul
A little Johnny Cash
Springsteen rock 'n roll

Grey sky and some rain
Driving in the storm
Please, Life, protect my son
A place safe and warm

                  El futuro ...

Just the little poems
Walk the little way
A little gratitude
Gracias xie xie

       another day

America is the Land of Ignorance
See how they run
I listen to some music
Basketball with my son

American politics
Demagogue in the Night
I play a little basketball
Gatsby's green light

                 Well, Alright!

Will  I see Seattle again?
Will I ride the ferry boat?
My so-called life
Boring, but xie xie ni

Get my son to school
Harold Bloom a fool
Enact the golden rule
Peace for my 3

                       Si.

In gratitude for sunlight
In gratitude for rain
Sleep, grateful sleep
In this life of pain

Waiting but never finding
I ride the Downbound Train
Small steps, Small steps
Salamanca, Spain

                       Ole!

I'm ambiguous to myself
Puzzling proclivities
Susan Darlene Meek
Please, baby, please!

Get my son from school
Keep him moving ahead
Open, Openness
After I am dead

         Courage in the Dread

According to Friedrich Nietzsche

Ferry boats in Seattle
Water blue and green
Moonlight up above
Can you see what I mean?

Silent in Seattle
Singing too at Kells
My sons still so young
We are the Witherells

                   Ole!

I miss my mom
I miss my mom
Years go by
She's not here

Emptiness
Absence, Absence
Memories
Silence, Tears

This life wears me down
Depression and despair
A little dailiness
Highwater Everywhere

A little dailiness
Eating, drinking, sleep
Get my son to school
Promises to keep

                  Keep!

I resist American nationalism
I've known too many Americans
Sleep till noon again
Carolina blue

            Susan Meek not Sue

                      Seattle U.

                           tdw

My boring so- called life
But I do my level best
Pick up my son from school
Qualyxian the Quest

Rain all day today
Wash away my blues
Grey day Inner Harbor
Got my walkin' shoes

              Astrobiology!

Miss you in the afternoon
Rain came down came rain
Words are not enough
I just can't explain

Call me lost and lonely
I ride the Downbound Train
Can't get you out
Of my miserable brain

                     Hey Hey!

If Joe is 55
And his girlfriend is 21
How much money does Joe have?

I miss her 40 years later
But it is all illusion
Life goes on until it doesn't
Exoplanet sky

City of Ember
The Giver
Things Not Seen
Life of Pi

                  Aye.